Posts Tagged ‘film’
First there was the water cycle. Water from the oceans evaporate into the atmosphere. The water returns to the earth with a vengeance as precipication. Running off into ground-water and above-ground streams, the water finds its way back to the ocean. Now, we would remiss not to welcome the occurrence of another such cycle: the [...]
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Tags: convergence, CSI, film, games, media, Smurfs, TV, Ubisoft, water cycle
If marketers didn’t have enough job frustration as “they devote time their skill and energy in coming up with advertisements that their intended audience does not really want to see or hear,” but now they also have to deal with audiences dissatisfied when they’ve done their job too well. A Michigan woman Sarah Deming is [...]
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Tags: advertising, agencements, Drive, film, FilmDistrict, marketing
Today DreamWorks Animation announced a new deal with Netflix to stream their new film releases starting in 2013. This new decision comes in light of DreamWorks’ decision to not renew their TV exhibition agreement with HBO. DreamWorks demonstrates a Technology and Innovation approach to media management, specifically Uses and Gratification. As the modern media user [...]
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Tags: convergence culture, Dreamworks, film, innovation, management strategy, Netflix, online streaming, technology, uses and gratification
A new kind of creative
I found this post on Twitter to be be very interesting: ‘Avatar’ unleashes a new kind of creative. The question on my mind is whether this position will follow the precarious route that most work in Hollywood has gone.
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Tags: creatives, film, film-making, Hollywood, movies, precarity, Siyabonga Africa
The Business Podcast
The latest podcast of The Business is up and in it they discuss Dick Cook’s departure from Disney and also the recent Toronto Film Festival which might spell bad news for independent film makers who want to sell their movies to big studios. I think the most interesting part of the podcast was the discussion [...]
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Tags: film, media companies, media ownership
State governments in the US are finally realizing that tax incentives for filmmaking in their state may not be exactly the cashflow bonanza they had hoped. “We are still not sure what exactly our tax dollars are being spent on with these films,” said Republican state Sen. Mark Jansen” Some states offer nearly 50% of [...]
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Tags: film, government
The Unwanted Marriage
There are a number of issues in the Disney/Marvel acquisition which hark to hidden perceptions and prejudices that society holds. I listen to The Business, which is a podcast run by the public radio station KCRW and it highlighted some points in the story (Disney/Marvel mash-up) which I don’t many people realised. Did you know [...]
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Tags: film, ownership, television
